NEW EDUCATION POLICY

View: Why National Education Policy 2020 may not change India's govt schools for better

​​Most of the education sector reforms listed in NEP are unlikely to work if teachers continue to spend less than a fifth of their working ...

View: NEP 2020 charts new road map, but fails to make public school teachers accountable

After 34 years, the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has outlined a new road map to overhaul India’s education system. While the docume...

National Education Policy 2020 has a new focus, says Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’

"One of the fundamental principles of NEP is according the highest priority to achieving foundational literacy and numeracy by all students...

63 Indian universities qualify for 2021's Times Higher Education World University Rankings

The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore has ranked first among the Indian institutes (301-350 band overall), followed by IIT Ropar (351-4...

National Education Policy will ensure quality and affordable education: Prakash Javadekar

This is an education policy that will take India forward as it will provide accessibility, equity, quality, affordability and accountabilit...

View: The New Education Policy 2020 is set to be a landmark in India’s history of education

The policy places a welcome emphasis on a holistic, learner centred, flexible system that seeks to transform India into a vibrant knowledge...

No language is being imposed in the new National Education Policy: K Kasturirangan

The former ISRO Chief who was tasked with drafting the new policy, says "adopting local languages as the medium of instruction till Class 5...

New Education Policy is highly regulated and poorly funded: Manish Sisodia

New National Education Policy (NEP) recommends a “highly-regulated” and “poorly-funded” education model, while it is either confused or sil...

Cabinet approves new National Education Policy, HRD ministry renamed Education Ministry: Ramesh Pokhriyal

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the new National Education Policy (NEP) and renamed the HRD Ministry as Education Minist...

Union Cabinet approves new National Education Policy, renames HRD Ministry as Ministry of Education

A panel led by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Kasturirangan had submitted the draft of the new NEP to Union Human...

Teaching up to class 5 in mother tongue, regional language: School principals have varied views

As per the new National Education Policy (NEP), the medium of instruction until at least class 5, but preferably till class 8 and beyond, w...

Applying one education policy across states not a viable idea, says expert

Certain facets of the New Education Policy (NEP 2020), such as redesigning of Class 10 board exams and reforms in primary school, "lack cla...

NEP 2020: What does the new policy mean for learners and India's education system?

Making board exams easy, reduction of curriculum to core concepts, replacement of 10+2 structure of school curricula with a 5+3+3+4 structu...

New education policy to enable creative learning among students, boost job prospects: Ind-Ra

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) on Thursday said the new National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) will enable creative learning among stude...

National education policy 2020 restructures both school and higher education

​​In the offing are ‘easier’ board exams, better-designed progress cards at school, a single higher education regulator, multiple entry and...

Karnataka to set up 16 varsities, 34 institutions in 3 years

With the setting up of the institutions, the aim is to achieve the goals of the new Education Policy by year 2030, he told a press conferen...

NEP a much awaited reform in education sector; will transform millions of lives: PM Modi

In a series of tweets, he said the New Education Policy is based on the pillars of "access, equity, quality, affordability and accountabili...